乡镇工业空间分布的研究具有很强的理论与现实意义。国外就这一主题的研究很少。本文在总结国内目前有关研究的基础上,以我国乡镇工业发达的珠江三角洲为研究区域,以顺德市北滘镇为实例,采用北滘镇域内109间乡镇工业企业的抽样问卷调查资料,对乡镇工业分散分布问题进行实证研究,试图从企业角度揭示和分析乡镇工业分散分布的根本原因。

The spatial distribution of XiangZhen industries has been one of the focus of the geographers' and planners' studies since 1980s.Instead of the existint studies which have attributed the XiangZhen industry's spatial distribution to the firm's external environment, like the national land use policy, the industrial enterprise itself in this paper has been chosen as the research approach to explore the main driving force for its spatial distribution.The Pearl River Delta (PRD)was chosen in this paper as the research region, where XiangZhen industry has been groaing very fast.Most of the research is focused on Beijiao, the case study township, and has got the highest industrial development level in the townships in the region and typical dispersed industrial distribution.
Based on the case study and the discriminant analysis to the firms' questionnaire material, Six factors of the firm, ownership, scale, demand for the infrastructure, types of linkages among firms, interal organization and running stability, have been found to mainly lead to the dispersed distribution of the XinagZhen industries in Beijiao.